After waiting for several years, we finally got fiber internet connection two months ago.
Sadly in these two months we have had three occasions when we had no connection to internet at all.
Last time, a couple of days ago, it was out for more than 24 hours!
This is way worse than I expected, and much worse than the old ADSL connection we had before.
On the good side is, that when we actually have connection, it works really good.
But to have better statistics on the connection reliability I made a small python program.
#!/usr/bin/python2 -tt
# Joakim Wesslen
'''
Check internet connection and log result to file
'''
"""
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Copyright (c) 2015 Joakim Wesslen
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
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SOFTWARE.
"""
import sys
import time
import urllib2
import socket
logfile = "ispwatcher.txt"
loop_delay_minutes = 30
seconds_per_minute = 60
urls = [
'www.dn.se',
'www.sds.se',
'www.svd.se',
'www.cnn.com',
'www.bbc.co.uk',
'www.dmi.dk',
'www.nrk.no'
]
def getdatetime():
'''Get date time string'''
return time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S")
def check_url(url):
'''check url connection'''
try:
response=urllib2.urlopen('http://' + url, timeout=10)
return True
except urllib2.URLError as err:
pass
dt = getdatetime()
s = "Error: {}: {}".format(dt, url)
print s
write_result(dt, s)
return False
def check_urls(urls):
'''check list of urls'''
results = []
for url in urls:
res = check_url(url)
results.append(res)
return results
def calc_result(results):
'''
calculate the result of check_urls.
if one url is accessible, we are connected.
'''
if True in results:
result = "connected"
else:
result = "disconnected"
return result
def write_result(dt, result):
'''write result string to file with datetime'''
s = "{}: {}".format(dt, result)
print s
with open(logfile, "a") as txt_file:
txt_file.write(s + "\n")
def wait_minutes(minutes):
'''wait some minutes'''
time.sleep(minutes * seconds_per_minute)
def get_lock(process_name):
'''make sure only one instance exists'''
global lock_socket
lock_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
try:
lock_socket.bind('\0' + process_name)
except socket.error:
print "Already running"
sys.exit()
def close_lock():
'''release the lock'''
global lock_socket
try:
lock_socket.close()
except socket.error:
print "close_lock exception!"
def main(args):
try:
while True:
dt = getdatetime()
results = check_urls(urls)
result = calc_result(results)
write_result(dt, result)
wait_minutes(loop_delay_minutes)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print 'Stopped by user'
close_lock()
sys.exit(0)
if __name__ == '__main__':
get_lock('ispwatcher')
sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))
The program checks internet connection two times per hour, and writes the result to a file.
I put it on a Raspberry Pi, connected directly to the router, and also set up a cron job to make sure it runs.
The cron job starts the script every half-hour, and is done as:
00 * * * * /home/pi/ispwatcher.sh 30 * * * * /home/pi/ispwatcher.sh
The shell script is simply starting the python program.
As you can see the python program makes sure only one instance is running, so this setup should be okay I hope.
Let's see what the result will show.
